Improvement in ice-breakers



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Ice-Breaker.

M Patented Oct. 29, 1878.

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N PETERS. FHOTO-UTHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES. PATENT OEETCE.

EDWARD J. CREASEY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT |N` ICE-BREAKERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 209,463, dated October29, 1878 application filed August 2o, 187s.

for reducing ice to any desirable degree of neness for freezingice-cream, packing lish, and for other purposes; and the inventionconsists of a revolving cylinder provided with de tachable cutters,which are seated on inclined blocks arranged on the periphery of thecylinder and contin ed by means of ri vets or screws, as hereinafterdescribed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of my machine.Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an end elevation. Fig.4 is a perspective view of one of the cast-iron blocks. Fig. 5 is a likeview of one of the ribbed cutters.-

Like letters of reference in all the gures indicate thesame parts.

A A are the housings of the machine. B is the concave end of the hopperwhich receives the ice to be cut, having diamondpointed ribs a cast onits upper andinner surface. C is a similar plate, which is provided withsharp-ribbed cutters b at a point near where the ice leaves the plate B.D isa chute to convey the ice from the machine.

The blocks, in addition to holding the cutters, assist in breaking theice. One of the blocks is shown detached in Fig. 4, and one of theribbed cutters in Fig. 5.

' I is a shaft provided with cutters or breakers d, which pass betweenthe cutters f on the chute D to reduce the ice to the proper size, andassist its passage down the chute.

The shaft I has a geared connection with the shaft G of the cylinder bymeansV of the gearwheels J and J1 'on said shafts and the idler-wheel J2 on the stud-shaft K.

The operation is as follows: The ice is fed into the space between thecylinder E and the concave end B of the hopper, and as the cylinder isrevolved in the direction of the arrows it is drawn downward and cutinto small pieces and falls'down the chute until it comes in contactwith the cutters or breakers f, and is forced through or between them bythe cutters or breakers d of the shaft to the end of the chute.

The machine is driven by either hand or motive power.

I claim as my nventionl The revolving cylinder E, having inclined blocksc arranged at suitable distances apart on its periphery, and detachablecutters H, seated thereon, and confined to the cylinder and to theintermediate blocks by means of screws or rivets, substantially in themanner and for the purpose set forth.

EDWD. J. CREASEY.

Witnesses:

THOMAS J. BEWLEY, STEPHEN UsTIcK.

